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🍯 The UK Bee Forage Bloom Calendar

Scrub through the UK beekeeping year and watch a 3D forage landscape bloom and fade, revealing why nectar flow rises, collapses in the June gap, and recovers again.

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Twelve real UK forage species bloom and fade around a central hive as you scrub through the beekeeping year, while a live nectar-flow chart traces the colony's seasonal income — including the dip beekeepers call the June gap.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each species has its own real bloom window. Spring's flush (willow, blackthorn, oilseed rape, hawthorn) ends before midsummer's flush (bramble, clover, lime) begins, producing the mid-season nectar trough known as the June gap.

🎮 How to Use

Scrub the month slider or let the year auto-play, switch between lowland/arable and upland/moorland landscapes, and adjust colony strength to see how the store trend swings between surplus and deficit.

💡 Did You Know?

Oilseed rape can deliver a colony's single richest nectar flow of the year, yet heather moorland further north or west often produces the last major flow before autumn dearth sets in.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D landscape of twelve real UK forage plants arranged around a hive, each blooming and fading on its true seasonal window as you scrub through the year, with a live nectar-flow chart revealing the mid-season June gap.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install